My fist nation friend once got chewed out by a French woman for not speaking French in Quebec, they were like "learn Algonquin and I'll learn French bitch!"
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Was in a convenience store when the Sikh owner caughy some shoplifters. One of the shoplifters yelled 'go back to your own country'. To which the retort was 'Send your grandmother back to poland'! I ded.
Had a coworker shit on the english being spoken by a mexican coworker. I asked him how many languages he spoke. Which shut him up for a bit.
i thought i had a bit of an ear for parroting spoken sounds from a wide variety of languages (latin languages, turkic, japanese, korean), so when i was working in the four corners area with some guys for some months, i thought to learn some basic Diné bizaad. i could not make my mouth generate like >80% of the sounds and as a result only memorized like 2 nouns with limited use potential. i did learn the term for whites/anglos (thankfully pronounceable by me), so i could get cheap laughs by shaking my head/rolling my eyes at some stupid colonizer b.s. and muttering it.
Yeah American phonology is very unique, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salishan_languages
For instance the Nuxalk word clhp’xwlhtlhplhhskwts’ (IPA: [xɬpʼχʷɬtʰɬpʰɬːskʷʰt͡sʼ]), meaning "he had had [in his possession] a bunchberry plant",[2] has twelve obstruent consonants in a row with no phonetic or phonemic vowels.
clhp’xwlhtlhplhhskwts’
Diné bizaad has sounds which are comparatively easy to pronounce in isolation, but when you actually have to string them together into actual words, and there's pitch accent to boot, hoo boy...
"American isn't a language you dumb fuck"
